[Intruders alert, defeat the intruders for DP.
Type: Humanoid
Element: none]
The very next day a small group of adventurers showed up at Smaugs' dungeon. Among them were the three from before, Giony, and a few more faces. Two beastkin rangers one boy wolf and one girl cat, a human mage, and another dwarf tank.
Giony started speaking. "We have made it to the dungeon which has been formerly named 'The Smoke Keep Caves'. For the sake of formality, I will take charge as the party leader if there are any objections say so now." the party then all responded in unison "no sir."
Once they entered the dungeon their information appeared above their heads revealing their names to Smaug.
"Let us see, the leader is Giony level 30, those rangers are Rolfo and Rilfa both level 15, and the mage is Eleena level 25. Lastly, the Dwarf is named Tobias level 15. These guys are way too strong I can't fight them none of my kobolds stand a chance, and I doubt I stand a chance either."
Next unaware of the spying, Giony gave out some orders. "Rolfo, Rilfa you two ready what you need for the mapping skill. Eleena, cast mapping and information transfer. Let's map out as much of this dungeon as possible before sundown, if we aren't too deep by then, then we can camp outside. But if we are too deep we'll have to stay in the dungeon which might be tricky."
"Got it"
In unison, everyone responded to their given orders. Then both rangers took out lots of paper and ink while Eleena readied a multitude of spells.
"Mana bend to my will and copy your properties [Twin Cast]. Mana be born with a fraternal twin [Twin Spell]. Teach me about the stationery world around me [Area Detection]. Teach those who wish to be taught, [Information sharing]"
Once that happened two magic circles appeared. One below Eleenas feet rapidly spread out and then disappeared, and then the one sent energy to both of their rangers.
"Activate [skill mapping]"
A green glow enveloped their hands as they started drawing two different halves of one map doing everything from showing elevation changes to the full extent of both the left and right paths with the middle one is about halfway complete.
With that Giony spoke "Well done, now if you can maintain this so we can have a completed mask. You three bring out the dungeon feed and leave it for anything we come across. And everyone remember, if we come across the dungeon master we don't kill it. It'll just come back later angrier."
As the group walked down the middle they eventually reach the highest point. Eleena spoke out.
"Hey, guys, don't you think it's weird we haven't run into anything yet?"
In response, Giony responded, "A little but the kobolds may be avoiding us, better yet what does our future trek hold?"
"Well it appears to be a massive network of caves, however the paths we can take are very few, only giving us a few directions, worse yet they are small only rows of two could effectively work, everything else is too small for anything but a Kobold. They are likely ambush tunnels so we have to be careful but they are also perfect places to leave the dungeon feed. Somewhere where only the Kobolds can get, but if we are ambushed flooding the tunnels with magical attacks you can easily smoke them out."
"So far so good it seems. Let's keep going."
Throughout their trip they left lots of dungeon feed on the ground taking the most direct route forward eventually they walked all the way through to the core room, Smaug had to teleport towards the entrance just to not be spotted as he didn't know what they would do if they found out a person was the dungeon master. Using their speech it was clear they thought he was a roaming monster that happened to get lucky. Arriving at the core room Giony removed a large sack filled with all sorts of treasures including several coins, low-quality swords, and even some rather large magic crystals about twice as big as the magic crystals that came from the Mountain eagles.
"Now we just have to put this stuff into the core and the material value will be turned into energy, of course, this is all we can provide but if we are lucky this dungeon will grow strong rapidly because of this. We should also ask for some death row inmates. Preferably strong ones, they are going to die anyway might as well have them try to repay their debt to society."
Giony then grabbed a sword and pushed it to the core.
[treasure is being offered to the dungeon.
Would you like to store it or consume it?
Store: +1 old sword
Consume: +50 DP]
"It'd be suspicious if I had a sword that was sacrificed to the dungeon when I inevitably end up working with the NPCs, I'll consume it. Now that money, on the other hand, when sacrificed I'll store it all and if it turns out I have a lot I can sacrifice some."
Next Giony grabbed some coins and they were all immediately stored and showed up in Smaug's inventory.
[Inventory: 100 copper coins]
Afterward, Giony placed the magic crystals
[Store: Magic Crystal (E)
Consume +100 Dungeon XP]
"Oh, so that is how you level up a dungeon. Yes, consume every magic crystal. time passed and eventually, the bag was empty
[All treasures have been absorbed
You have gained:
+100 copper coins
+400 DP
+500 Dungeon XP]
[Current DP: 1750]
[Your dungeon has leveled up (1 -> 3)
[Dungeon XP: 200/300]
[Your dungeon store has expanded]
[you have unlocked the treasure store]
[you can now make additional floors]
"Okay guys let's book it the sun is setting soon and I don't want to stand watch. Plus we need to give the dungeon privacy as it expands. It won't do it while we are in here."
Later the group arrived at the entrance as the sun was setting
[Night is approaching you gained DP for having intruders in your dungeon
You have gained +1600DP]
"So having living intruders inside my dungeon at nightfall gives me more daily DP. That is very interesting. Let me check the new store, first enemies."
[Enemies:
-Kobold rank G (10)
-Kobold mage rank F (20)
-Kobold Commander rank F (25)
-Kobold Archer rank F (20)
-Lower Wyvern Rank E (50)
-Lower Dragonling Rank E (60]
"A nice selection but I don't have any place for the Wyvern, actually no that I think about it the mini-boss rooms are perfect, for now, I'll put a Dragonling in the first one down the right path, and a Wyvern in the second just before the second section."
[-110 DP
Placing monsters]
Next, let's look at environments and traps at the same time I don't plan on going in-depth with those.
[Environment:
-Small cave system (100) (2km x 2km)
-Medium cave system (200) (4km x 4km)
-Large cave system (500) (10km x 10km)
-cavern room (250) (5km x 5km)
-Stone corridors (300) (5km x 10km)]
[Traps:
-spiked pitfall (50)
-tripwire (10)
-arrow trap (40)
-flame thrower (80)]
"Oh? Buy me three arrow traps and six flame throwers for now I'll have the arrows throughout the second treasure room with the flame throwers in the last section."
[-600DP]
"Now how about that treasure shop?"
[Treasure:
Copper coin (10)
Silver coin (100)
Gold coin (1000)
Lower Chest (100)
Standard chest (500)
High Chest (1000)
Grand chest (10000)
Royal chest (1000000)
Iron sword (500)
Iron spear (500)
Bow (500)]
"That is a whole lot of numbers, too bad I'm not counting them. But that lower chest looks enticing what does it do?"
[Lower chest: a chest that when opened contains an item that costs about 50 copper coins and no more than a single silver using the local prices of the nearby human settlement as a baseline. They can be selected to have up to three potential locations to appear in or attached to a boss monster to reward intruders for defeating a boss, in hopes to keep them satisfied with that. Once opened it will disappear after 24 hours and reappear in one of its designated locations or in a boss if the boss is replaced. If the boss is not replaced the chest will remain in that spot outputting far worse rewards than before the maximum value being reduced to 50 coppers.
They can not be opened by you or your monsters however once opened the contents inside are fair game.]
"Oh that is interesting, I'll buy four lower chests and give three to my Wyvern and one to the dragonling."
[-400]
"It's going to take a while before I can buy a mountain of gold, but that is perfect. but since they have this whole floor mapped out I can't change it too much. However, I can start on the expansion of my second and third floors."